Registered name of Steve Jobs in Apple's 313 patent

Steve Jobs, founder and prominent innovators Apple Inc., is the central figure whose role in the design of Apple products. Steve is very focused on design, but always wanted to participate in any process of manufacture of Apple products. Since 1983, the name of Steve Jobs has been included in the patent Apple products. Until now, there are as many as 313 patents Apple's Steve Jobs's name in it.

Apple products contained in it the name of Steve Jobs is the desktop computer, iPod, IOS-based services, laptops, and products that have a unique design or packaging. Later, the name of Steve Jobs is also listed in the patent the keyboard, mouse, monitor, Macintosh operating system, NeXT Computer, adapters, and some electronic devices, the last is the Apple TV.

Patents Personal Computer (PC) who first registered the PC release of the Apple III in 1981 and registered his patent on 12 April 1983. In a written patent, inventors product is Steven P. Jobs, Jerrold C. Manock, Dean A. Hovey, and David M. Kelley. A total of 20 patents other PC and then one by one and a patent filed recently in August 2010.

The first patent registered iPod is iPod Media Player that releases dated October 22, 2001. Patent itself be registered on January 21, 2003. In a written patent, inventors are Bartley K. products Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. SEID, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Anthony Whang. A total of 84 patents registered with the iPod and then one by one and the last patent filed on August 16, 2011.

IOS-based services patent was first filed on May 10, 2005. In a written patent inventors are Bartley K. products Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Shin Nishibori, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. SEID, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Anthony Whang, Zorkendorfer Rico. A total of 48 patents and registered by 19 April 2011.

The first patent registered laptop is a PowerBook G4 released in 2001 and registered his patent on October 15, 2002. In a written patent, inventors are Steven P. tersbeut products Jobs, Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. SEID, Christopher J. Stringer, Duncan Robert Kerr, Eugene Anthony Wang. A total of 39 other laptops patents filed to 27 September 2011.

Patents Macintosh Operating System was first registered on March 25, 2003 after the release on 25 April 1999. The name listed on the patent inventors are Daniel N. Crow, Cary Dean, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, J. Peter Hoddie, Steven P. Jobs, Timothy E. Wasko, CA. A total of 33 patents and patent and then registered the last on May 3, 2011.

Patents other Apple products the average first time last registered in 1983 and registered in 2011. This indicates that Apple Inc. has always made innovation and the patent is always registered. During that time, Steve Jobs never left hand.

In the patent application, Steve Jobs listed as the primary inventor or as one of the inventors. Indeed most of the name of Steve Jobs to be listed in the look and feel of the product, not a utility patent, which involves software algorithms or computer chips.

Still, patents owned by Steve Jobs far more than the other figures such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates or duo of Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Bill Gates was only registered in 9 Microsoft patents, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin just 12 patents registered in Google.

"Steve has the eye and brain of a genius for creating cross-Discipline design science. He never formally schooled, but he had a sense of these things, "said Mitchell Kapor, a veteran Silicon Valley technologist who founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982.

Some analysts and veterans of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs claimed that the name entered into the patent Apple products to lift the image of a visionary chief executive that they have.

"Apple may have another reason why Steve Jobs wants to have a name in the patent their products," said David B. Yoffie, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied the technology industry for decades.

The experts went on to say, it's impossible to add the name of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs in a patent only for public relations purposes. "If you enter a name of someone who did not participate, your patent is invalid," said Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University.

Apple still has not given a statement about the inclusion of the name of Steve Jobs in Apple patent. But some experts suspect, deep involvement of Steve Jobs and Steve often gathered with industry teams led by Johnny Ive, making it a joint patent with Ive at nearly 200 patents. Steve holds a huge role in the design and structure of the product. It is the unthinkable by Bill Gates of Microsoft.